Production Supervisor

silgancontainers; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Silgan Containers in Houston, TX seeks a production supervisor to lead safety, quality, and productivity on the manufacturing floor, managing people and processes to produce a quality product while upholding established standards.

Responsibilities include training staff, maximizing throughput, maintaining equipment, enforcing standard practices, reviewing production reports, and driving continuous improvement through SPC.

Qualifications

• High School diploma required.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline preferred.
• 3-5 years of supervision experience required.
• 3-5 years supervision in a plastic process facility preferred.
• MS Office, strong leadership, and SPC knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Oversee production, quality, safety, employee relations and resource control on the production floor.
• Train personnel using formal and informal methods; supervisors spend significant time on training.
• Maximize production throughput and efficient use of labor and materials.
• Maintain equipment and prevent downtime through proactive maintenance.
• Ensure equipment is set up to manufacturing standards for quality and efficiency.
• Spend 60-80% of time on the floor and actively resolve problems.
• Review production reports and address substandard performance immediately.
• Communicate effectively about production and quality issues to keep operations aligned.
• Investigate accidents and near misses; document findings and actions.
• Enforce safety rules and updates to safety procedures.
• SPC knowledge and continuous improvement efforts.

Skills

Microsoft Suite

Leadership

SPC knowledge

Education

High School diploma

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Job description

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION:

Trains, evaluates, and takes appropriate action to maintain a safe work environment with established standards and guidelines.

Manage the people and processes in manufacturing to effectively produce a quality product.

Investigates, evaluates and takes appropriate action to maintain quality within established standards and guidelines. Actively pursues opportunities to improve product quality.

Investigates, evaluates and takes appropriate action to maintain and improve production efficiencies within the established standards or guidelines.

Investigates, evaluates, reports and takes appropriate action to maintain cooperative relations.

Investigates, evaluates and takes appropriate action to keep the resource usage within established standards or guidelines.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for production, quality, safety, employee relations and resource control on the production floor.
• Train Personnel - Training never ends. Training includes formal and informal methods. Supervisors spend a lot of time training and working with people. This should be accelerated with new, displaced, or unfamiliar workers.
• Maximize Production Throughout - Supervisors are responsible for the efficient use of labor and materials to maximize production throughout.
• Maintain Equipment - Ensure all equipment is in good operating condition. Prevent down time due to mechanical problems through anticipating problems and correcting them before down time occurs.
• Follow Standard Practices - Supervisors are responsible to ensure equipment is set up to proper manufacturing standards to provide quality production and efficient, trouble-free operation.
• Maximize Floor Time - To be effective, supervisors are expected to spend 60-80% of their time on the floor. Supervisors are responsible to actively participate in the identification and resolution of any problems that may occur.
• Review Production Reports - When reviewing production reports, supervisors must know reasons for all periods of substandard performance and formulate plans to immediately correct them.
• Effective Verbal and Written Communications - Supervisors must effectively use verbal and written communications to communicate production and quality related issues to others. The use of effective communication is necessary to maintain equipment condition, insure proper maintenance practices and for the timely resolution of problems.
• Administer established standards, practices, and procedures. Responsible to meet standard efficiency, scrap loss, material usage, UPH.
• Direct and Assign Work to Employees - Supervisors must insure adequate work is assigned to employees. Employees must be effectively utilized, particularly those employees with discretionary time (i.e. utility, relief). Employees must understand where they are to work, what their responsibilities are, and how long they are expected to perform those duties.
• Know and Apply Written Safety Procedures - Knowledge and application of all safety manual programs is required. Supervisors need to keep themselves and their employees abreast of changes and updates to these programs.
• Inspect Work Areas - Supervisors are responsible for inspecting their work areas daily for unsafe conditions & behaviors. When recognized, unsafe conditions & behaviors need to be corrected immediately. Supervisors should make direct contact with each of their employees weekly, in routine communication, to discuss job related safety topics.
• Investigate Accidents & Near Misses - Supervisors are responsible for reporting, investigating, and documenting all accidents and reported near misses. Investigations must be completed in a timely manner.
• Enforce Safety Rules - Supervisors are key to enforcement of safe work practices. Supervisors must initiate appropriate measures with employees who fail to follow established safety procedures.
• SPC working knowledge including continuous improvements efforts.

EDUCATION:

• Required: High School diploma
• Preferred: Bachelors degree in a technical discipline

EXPERIENCE:

• Required: 3-5 yrs supervision experience
• Preferred: 3-5 yrs supervision experience in a plastic process facility.

SKILLS:

• Required: Microsoft Suite, strong leadership, SPC knowledge.

LIMITATIONS AND DISCLAIMER (Non-Canada)

The above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position.

All job requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health and safety of themselves or other employees.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-rel